CONTENTS. 65. THE sweeping effects of time-Melan- choly contemplations arising thereupon -Significancy of this fluctuating cha- racter, and the great and consoling ar- guments it supplies to thinking men- Letter from Eugenio to Amelia........ 66. Scandal viewed in more lights than one- Short history of Scandal-A passage from Lucian-Story of the green ass- Anatomy of an old maid's ear..... 67. The practice of lying considered-Extra- ordinary letter on the subject, to Simon Olive-Branch, read at the Club, contain- ing a strange account of a classical lie- Its various impressions on the Club- Mr. Allworth's speech on the subject of the letter-Sentiment from Cicero-A fable-Viceroy of Naples and the galley THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS; WITH PREFACES, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, BY A. CHALMERS, F.S.A. VOL. XXXVII. LONDON: PRINTED FOR C. AND J. RIVINGTON; G. AND W. NICOL; T. EGER- 270. g. 549. |